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Repeating Animation in Motion

There are several methods to loop a behavior in Apple Motion. But if you want complete control over the animation, you can build it using keyframes and the timeline and loop/repeat the animation using the Keyframe Editor. Let's walk through the steps.

We will build a simple Bokeh animation using 5 circles, which we will control individually in the Timeline. We already have a background image for the animation, which is a 1080 x 1080 px Instagram post graphic, which I used to announce a post about Adobe Spark. The photo, red rectangle and white text were flattened and imported into Motion. The photo has a small Bokeh area, which we will enhance with our animation.

I usually get best results by exporting the animation from Motion as an .mov video file. Then opening the .mov file in to HandBreak to compress the file in to an .mp4 file ready to upload to Instagram.

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